Dum Dum boys

Formed in the mid-'80s in Nice on the French Riviera, Dum Dum Boys took shape as a rock & roll band whose raw approach drew from Suicide, the Velvet Underground, and the Stooges. The group took its name from an Iggy Pop song title. Their first release, the 1987 single "Real Cool Trash/Point of No Return," preceded the 1988 debut album Nothing Means Nothing on Closer Records. Four further LPs followed over the ensuing decade, moving through fuzz-toned punk and rock directions that ranged from the '60s garage style of 1994's Hypnovista to the analog synth-heavy Electronic Pop Music issued in 1998. The band stayed active in the early 2000s, extending those explorations on 2001's Soul Bondage Deluxe and 2003's Kiss Me Deadly, though nearly a decade passed before the next studio album appeared. Flesh! Trash! Heat! arrived in 2011 as a strong return, combining garage bangers with trippy, lo-fi electro-rock. After signing to the Nice-based indie Mono-Tone Records, they cut Alive in the Echo Chamber in 2013, once more revealing their range across noisy styles. Electrified!, the band's tenth studio album, came out in 2016, again on the Mono-Tone label.